FINAL GIRL explores the slasher flicks of the '70s and '80s...and all the other horror movies I feel like talking about, too. This is life on the EDGE, so beware yon spoilers!

Nov 28, 2007

Lame Week: Day 3

Lots of good guessing flying around yesterday during Lame Week's inaugural "Name that crispy dude, or at least the movie from whence he came!" contest. Many of you recognized the flapping flap of Harris (Richard Lynch) from Bad Dreams (1988). Congrats, you know-it-alls!

Today, Lame Week continues. I bid you welcome to my totally macabre Gallery of Novelizations! You can hold hands if you get scared, but that's not a license to get fresh.

Oh, man! I have that Halloween 3 novelization sitting right behind me in my bookcase.

But the real kicker is seeing It Lives Again! again! When I was just a wee duffer, I spent a month's worth of allowance money on this novel. I had seen (through the gaps in my terrified fingers) the original It's Alive in the theater, and I couldn't wait to read about the newest mutant baby they mention at the end having "just been born in Seattle".

This was the first "grown-up" book I ever bought, and I loved it dearly! I had to hide it from my mom, though, because it had some sex parts in it. When she finally spotted it wedged behind my Doctor Who books, she asked if she could borrow it. I turned bright red and mumbled something about not having finished it yet...